By Nelson Utip
Mr. Peter Okon , a Journalist with Cross River Broadcasting Corporation (CRBC) who was recently hit by a reckless driver in Calabar is currently calling for financial help.
The accident occured when Okon was jogging with his wife and the careless driver who was romancing the hand of a lady in the passenger seat ran on him as he was trying to save his wife, his two legs crushed by the vehicle.
The accident happened along Murtala Mohammed Highway and good Samaritans rushed him to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) Male Orthopaedic Ward, where he is currently receiving treatment.
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From his hospital bed, Okon who is News Director at CRBC, narrated his ordeal.
“As my wife and I were about to jog back to our home in the nearby Federal Housing Estate, Calabar, after the usual weekly exercise, here comes a car veering off the roundabout towards us with speed.
“Sensing danger, I was able to push off my wife who then fell into the gutter with degrees of injuries.
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“It was now too late for me to jump away and help myself. As a result, the reckless driver who was steering the wheel with one hand answering a call whilst a woman held his hand, hit me, crushing my two legs.
“My wife told me that the only person that came to her head was the Chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Cross River State Council, Comrade Gill Nsa-Abasi whom she called to evacuate me to UCTH.”
Okon said he has spent a lot on tests, major surgery, bed space, medical consumables, and lots more while narrating his predicament to Journalists, adding that the doctors told him they would carry out a plastic surgery on one of the legs that was badly affected.
The Cross River State Chairman of NUJ, Comrade Nsa-Abasi, in his reaction has called on fellow journalists and the general public to come to the aid of his colleague and his family at this time of distress. However it was gathered that the driver of the vehicle that hit him did not flee after the accident.
Okon can be reached on 08037929718 for assistance.
